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Peer reviewedBanks, Jane; Tankel, Jonathan David – Critical Studies in Mass Communication, 1990
Argues that television convention mitigates against depictions of technology as socially destructive. Argues that the presentation of science as television fiction is a conservative act. Concludes that television reinforces the socially constructed technological imperative of industrial societies, effacing its own role in the preservation of the…
Descriptors: Broadcast Television, Content Analysis, Futures (of Society), Mass Media Role
